Part 2. The GLCE Short List / Portfolio Table of Contents.

What to do in Reading and Writing for Fifth Grade!

Reading Standards

Read, understand, and connect with fiction books (Narratives)
· Read many different kinds of books and learn how they can reflect life in good and bad ways. Be able to make text to world connections, where you can relate what you read to events that have taken place on earth.
· Know the differences and similarities about these genres: Historical fiction, tall tales, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery
Read true writing based on real events (Informational or Expository)
· Know why different genres are named, especially: advertising, experiments, editorials, and atlases
· Know and be able to identify different text structures, such as: compare/contrast, position/support, and problem/solution
Understand what you read (Comprehension)
· Connect events in your life and what you know to things you read about. Be able to talk and write about this.
Things fifth grade learners must do (Critical Standards)
· Create class rubrics
· Assess and self assess written text
· Assess personal text
· Tell us if the writing meets the author’s purpose
· Tell us about the viewpoint of the author
· How will this effect a classroom audience
· How will this effect a school-wide audience

Reading Attitude

· Show a love reading and learning how to read. Read and write on your own a lot.

Writing Standards

Writing Genre

· Write a paper that shows your side of an argument using important ideas and evidence, with headings and subheadings.
· Prewrite when writing using some type of graphic organizer, a four square, web, map, Venn diagram. Use it to organize your ideas. Some things you may want to consider are details about characters, settings, or your position supported by evidence.

Writing Process

· Be able to go back to your writing many times, to enjoy and improve its organization and flow. Be able to identify one good thing and one thing to improve about your own writing, and help other students do this too.

  • Go back to your writing to look for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and more editing errors.